Russian Literature Genius Leo Tolstoy’s Personal Diaries Become Available Online

Personal diaries of a world-renowned Russian author Leo Tolstoy are now available online for free, marking his 186th anniversary.

“Diaries have never been published separately. They were included in the collected works issued in ninety volumes with limited circulation. Therefore, today not everybody has an idea of what Tolstoy’s diaries are. But they are great. It’s a continuous flow of reflections on the world and people. The main topic, however, is God, whom Tolstoy tried to apperceive,” Pavel Basinskiy, member of the award panel of “Yasnaya Polyana” literature award, writer and theorist of literature, told Izvestia newspaper.